SYRUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syrup mean? 

• SYRUP (noun)
  The noun SYRUP has 1 sense:

1. a thick sweet sticky liquid

  Familiarity information: SYRUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYRUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thick sweet sticky liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

sirup; syrup

Hypernyms ("syrup" is a kind of...):

sweetener; sweetening (something added to foods to make them taste sweeter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syrup"):

sugar syrup (sugar and water and sometimes corn syrup boiled together; used as sweetening especially in drinks)

molasses (thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining)

sorghum; sorghum molasses (made from juice of sweet sorghum)

golden syrup; treacle (a pale cane syrup)

grenadine (thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks)

maple syrup (made by concentrating sap from sugar maples)

corn syrup (syrup prepared from corn)

 Context examples 

Because the extract can be added to syrups commercial beekeepers commonly use, researchers say the extract could be a practical solution that could scale quickly.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This system considers foods ultra-processed if they have ingredients predominantly found in industrial food manufacturing, such as hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, flavoring agents, and emulsifiers.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

"There'll be a check at the post-office, I know, and we'll transmute it into beautiful buckwheat flour, a gallon of maple syrup, and a new pair of overshoes for you."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Worldwide increase in sugar consumption, especially sucrose or fructose and glucose syrups, has raised concern about its possible adverse effects on human health and the development of chronic diseases such as metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes.

(Not enough scientific evidence linking noncaloric sweeteners with adverse effects on gut microbiota, University of Granada)

Now they were all beautiful, and all exactly alike: but he was told that the eldest had eaten a piece of sugar, the next some sweet syrup, and the youngest a spoonful of honey; so he was to guess which it was that had eaten the honey.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

To test Stamets’ theory, the researchers from Washington State University conducted two experiments: They separated two groups of mite-exposed bees into cages, feeding one group sugar syrup with a mushroom-based additive and the other, syrup without the additive.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)